The Enlightenment in practice
Subtitle: academic prize contests and intellectual culture in France, 1670-1794
By: Jeremy L. Caradonna
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Ithaca
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801450600
Subjects: Competitions; Literature; Literary prizes; Intellectual life; Enlightenment; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The rebirth of the concours académique : cultural politics and the domestication of letters in the age of Louis XIV; title: À la recherche du concours académique; title: The participatory Enlightenment; title: Dijon revisited : Rousseau's first discourse from the perspective of the concours académique; title: The concours académique, political culture, and the formation of the critical public sphere; title: The practical Enlightenment : the concours académique, the state, and the pursuit of expertise; title: Prize contests in the revolutionary crucible : decline and regeneration; title: Conclusion : the Enlightenment in question.